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20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

looks overwhelmingly like NPEs are just targeting firms that are more likely to pay out” Known as Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs), the companies in the Baxter Building are located in Marshall for one reason: the federal courthouse next... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

name of the newspaper. Within seconds, he located three bios for Perez, information about her work with the UC Irvine alumni club, the citation for an "up-and-coming journalist" award she'd won, links to her personal pages on several... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

(HBS MBA'87), director of the Agribusiness Program at HBS. A Family Farm Woolf Farming & Processing, established in 1974, is located in the southern part of California's Central Valley, one of the most fertile areas in the country.... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

September 1995
Case

Ares-Serono

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Asset Management; Balance and Stability; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Leadership Development; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Switzerland; Europe

Citation

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21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon Abstract—Companies often assign workers to far-flung View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Thus far, strategy scholars have emphasized the importance of industry and firm-specific characteristics in affecting company choices. But,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

company. CSOs should have their finger on the pulse of the company culture, understanding what motivates employees and devising a strategy for implementing change that aligns with the workforce. Sometimes the strategy needs to be customized to work for offices View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

15 May 2013
Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

company makes the McRib available in the fall, thereby creating nostalgia for summer barbecues. The consumer response has been obsession. If you want to know when and where you might get your hands on a McRib, you can visit McRib fan Alan Klein's McRib View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

insurance risk maps drawn by the Federal Emergency Management Agency show lower State Street in Boston, the location of a popular hotel and a subway entry, in the 1 percent flood risk zone. This means that insurance is written today as if... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and speed—data the company aggregates... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

mortgages, and other consumer financial products, is firm in his belief that great service depends on service centers employing no more than roughly 150 people--even if two are located with just a wall between them. This is part of a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

to accessing discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and increase conversion. We demonstrate using a simple... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

change anything or anyone connected to them. They may affect us when we least expect it. This is not new. The world of networks is one in which links and nodes, hubs, connectivity, speed, and “reach” rule. During work on my doctoral thesis on business logistics, I was... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

when an independent director is more likely to dissent and who is more likely to dissent. Controlling for firm and board characteristics, we find that dissent is significantly correlated with breakdown of social ties between the independent director and the board chair... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

empirical framework, which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical observation, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

legitimacy, status, and reputation. Key concepts include: Small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In some cases the location of a new venture is a critical facilitator... View Details

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

Bloomingdale's, McDonald's, and Macy's—and that it will work at about 220,000 merchant locations across the United States that have enabled contactless payments. But some analysts believe that's a small number compared with the nine... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

controlling for firm size, performance, accounting quality, location, and political contributions, among other factors. What's more, Heese learned these firms were even less likely to be convicted if they were headquartered in the district of a senior congressperson... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

considerable heterogeneity in the role of FDI. First, multinationals located in countries that experienced sharper declines in aggregate output, demand, and credit conditions displayed a greater advantage over local firms. Multinationals... View Details